Item #002774 Fighting the Spoilsmen: Reminiscences of the Civil Service Reform Movement. William Dudley Foulke.
Fighting the Spoilsmen: Reminiscences of the Civil Service Reform Movement

Fighting the Spoilsmen: Reminiscences of the Civil Service Reform Movement

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. Hardcover. vi, [2], 348 p.; 22 cm. Burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Includes appendices and index. "Editorial Page Library" stamped on the title page (the newspaper not identified); lower spine scraped. No other library markings. First Edition. As an Indiana state senator, the author introduced bills to reform the state’s civil service system and investigated the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. He also investigated the Federal Civil Service before being appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the Civil Service Commission in 1901. These efforts and more are recounted here. In Good Condition: cover rubbed and lightly soiled; both hinges are cracked (typical for this volume), with the front cover partially separated; pages are clean and tight. Good. Item #002774

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